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did some college visits and loved it...GW was amazing i also visited american university but George Washington seemed so perfect. It seemed acedemically challenging, yet still had a great student life and involvement. I talked to the polo coach and he was so nice. Seemed like a great coach, and I enjoyed meeting him. Today was such a great day, college is seeming like more fun rather than stress!

jue

it's been a while...

just a little recap..summer is here the ACT is done and it's great. i've been hanging out at the beach, and meeting some new people. Lemmens bday was saturday and we went to douglas and did some painting..we all had a blast! i am actually in DC doing some college visits to Georgetown, and George Washington University. I haven't seen my sister in so long, so today we ate lunch and did some catching up. She is at work right now so I'm just catching up on some missed sleep. hope everyone is doing well...if anyone wants to hang out i will be home the 22nd, you know my number!

jue

                                                                                  To Each His Own

Juliette Brinks

Mr. Soule

American Lit.

5/23/06

     To one living delibratley is having every step of your life planned out since the age of 10 up until the age of 30. To another it may be challenging yourself to step outside what is normal, and demanding a change. Maybe living delibratley is more that just that. Could living delibratley be doing what you need to do to live you live to the fullest potential?

     I wake up, get in the shower, get ready, then I put on my already planned outfit on, and drive exactly 13 minutes to begin my day. I sit for what seems to be eternity, really only 7 hours, and continue onto practice. I conclude my night with an attempt to do some homework. When did I buy into this monotanoues lifestyle? When did I become okay with a mondane routine? Thoreau says in Walden, "Mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation." Our culture tries to ignore the dullness way that we have made life to be. We think ignoring it may help it go away. As I begin my quest to find what living delibratley means, I know for me it is not this.

     The days when space was a place we were going to visit, when we dremt of our job as a ballerina, and when we lived for four square at recess, maybe that was when we began living delibratley. I used to have dreams and aspirations. I was going to University of Michigan, and i was finding the cure for cancer. The idea of giving up was never heard of. Why did I stop dreaming? It's like there is a point in our lives when a switch is turned off and our ability to imagine and dream is wiped away with a negitive reality. A reality that creates the impossible's, things we should just give up on. Something that gives us a more "realistic veiw" of how things should be, it conforms us to become a person who just gets by.

     I have new dreams. My ballerina days were wisked off long ago, and my trips into space became a humerouse tale. I new dreams, more "realistic" drems. I like many will graduate from high school, and further my education at a University that is yet unknown to me. I will major in pychology, and if that falls through I will simply turn to business. Since I haven't met my highschool sweet-heart, I plan on my night-in-shining-armor to sweep me off my feet. I plan on marring no earlier than age 25, and between the ages of 23 and 25 I will travel. After marrige I would like to set asside an additional 2 years for my husband and I to travel. Around the age of 30 i will think about children, 5 perferably. My house will be a big home set back in the woods with a large amount of land, a lake in the back would be a bonus. If all works out I will retire at age 55 and play around with gardening. That, when asked is a detalied plan of my "realistic" life.

     Still I rest uneasy when have you live planned out each step of the way is supposildy living delibratley. What about the simplistic beauty that fills this world? We miss all of that when we know every turn in our life. What about those paths we've never thought about taking, but when we did it was filled with the beautiful aroma of flowers? I think that is what life is like. A big feild with many paths branching off all leading to different places. On each path there is bits of goodness, beauty and joy scattered throughout. However if we are too busy trying to find the end we miss the simple and true beauty hiding on the side.

     In Walden Thoreau says, "Things do not change, we change." Why do we allow our childhood dreams to blow away like dandylions in a feild. I'm not saying you should be the shark tamer you wanted to be in grade school, but I do believe we lost the abilty to imagine and dream. With careful consideration, I think i have what it takes for me to live delibratley. To have the heart of a 10 year old, one who imagines, dreams, lives for the simply and true beauty and who takes the work for its full potential.

     "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." Thoreau made a point to live delibratley. He enojoyed like as it came to him. I never thought of him as have a plan for his life, he learned to appreciate the small things. Waldens pond allowed him to learn to live a slower, more intricate life. One with more suprises along the way. Thoreau challenes us to live delibratley in the way that you see fit.

     May you allow yourself to experience different paths that branch off this feild called life. On the way to your future may the aroma of flowers fill your nose reminding you of the true beauty that fills this world. All simply because you are living delibratley. Which means well, that is up to you.

here is a little recap of the year....i am going to miss all my sr. girls so much i have gotten so close with them this last yr i feel like we have been friends forever...wow im going to miss them like crazy

 one of our many outing in saug. last summer

me beck ale chilling on the boat

one of our many dance parties this school year...soo fun

 another night out with ale and jess

cheering on our soccer boys!!

us at our last dance...dress in black and white skirts and tops...sooo fun!